Welcome to the mash up where - music and science live in harmony! Your task is to create a fun and informative video, reminding us about the Interactions in Ecosystems.


Please help us remember the following concepts in your video:

  • Your Name and Title of Music Video
  • Ecosystems and examples of their biotic and abiotic components
  • School yard ecosystem
  • Prairie ecosystem
  • weathering and erosion
  • Succession (primary and secondary)
  • Symbiotic relationships including...commensalism, mutualism, and parasitism
  • basic needs of living things (Food, Water, Habitat and Exchange of Gases)
  • Food webs and food chains
  • Water Cycle (in detail)
  • Rivers and river systems (young river, mature river, old river, deltas, oxbow lakes)
  • Carbon cycle (in detail)
  • Decomposers, scavengers, producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers, tertiary consumer (predator and prey game! just kidding...include it only if you want to!)
  • Decompostion
  • Things that change ecosystems (human actitivy, bioinvasion, weather)
  • Human impact on ecosystems (pesticides, land development, extinction/endangered species, etc.)
  • Ecological Footprint (what is it, what does it mean, how can we reduce ours)
  • Reduce, Reuse, Recycle